Friday, October 29, 2004
Irish Government with Project Management in mind
This week the Irish Minister for Transport acknowledged that project management is essencial for improving the productivity of the state.
J
J
Sunday, October 24, 2004
Project Management Pitfalls
Project Magazine published a PCI study that tries to assess project success and failure rates both within corporations and across Project Management Institute chapters.
The main focus of the study is on "Do Senior Managers and Corporate Culture Support, Obstruct or Ignore Project Work?"
J
The main focus of the study is on "Do Senior Managers and Corporate Culture Support, Obstruct or Ignore Project Work?"
J
Friday, October 22, 2004
Agile Software Development
AgileAlliance published in 2001 a manifesto with the principles that all software development projects should use.
In the meantime a current is emerging that states that PMI principles and the agile Project Management are in some way incompatible.
What the author doesn't seem to understand is that the PMBOK presents the tools and techniques that a PM can use for his/her project but ultimately is up to the PM to decide how to do the work (communicate with the team verbally or written, build iteratively or in one big bang approach).
There is also a miss conception of what is the project management process and the project life cycle. The last is the set of specific phases that constitute a project to improve management and this is dictated by the specific application area (in this case software dev). The first one must adapt to help attain the project goals.
J
In the meantime a current is emerging that states that PMI principles and the agile Project Management are in some way incompatible.
What the author doesn't seem to understand is that the PMBOK presents the tools and techniques that a PM can use for his/her project but ultimately is up to the PM to decide how to do the work (communicate with the team verbally or written, build iteratively or in one big bang approach).
There is also a miss conception of what is the project management process and the project life cycle. The last is the set of specific phases that constitute a project to improve management and this is dictated by the specific application area (in this case software dev). The first one must adapt to help attain the project goals.
J
Saturday, October 16, 2004
Project Management
Hi all,
This is the first post of a blog with the goal of discussing and exchange ideas about this very broad topic.
Hope you enjoy,
J
This is the first post of a blog with the goal of discussing and exchange ideas about this very broad topic.
Hope you enjoy,
J
